Modeling of occupant dynamics during automobile rear-end impacts

Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 335-345

  Huang, Shyh Chour ^a   Chu, Jiann Yuan ^b   Chang, Chih Han ^b  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Multibody system; Rear end impacts; Whiplash

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SIMULATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VELOCITY; WHIPLASH INJURY;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOBILES; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAD; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; THORAX; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EID: 0033498130     PISSN: 09592989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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